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27 September, 17:09

Why did the states place so much power in hands of the popularly elected legislatures?

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    They viewed powerful executives as enemies of liberty.

    States viewed powerful executives as having the potential to become tyrannical. As a result, almost all of the state constitutions written in the late 1770s placed most of the power in the legislatures
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